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by erbdex 9y ago
1. India has 10K AICTE approved engineering colleges. While some of these are IITs and NITs that you might've heard of, beyond the top 50-100 colleges, there is _no support system_ for the students. The curriculum of most state univers
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by erbdex 9y ago
Interesting insights into Stripe's collaboration: https://medium.com/in-progress/design-and-collaboration-at-s...
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by erbdex 9y ago
If you haven't, Netflix's has a documentary called 13TH[1] where a loop hole in the slavery abolishment act was used to mass incarcerate blacks in the USA. As indicated in other threads, USA is inhabited with just 5% of the world&
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by erbdex 9y ago
I'll get back on this. Looping in people who understand this space better.
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by erbdex 9y ago
I don't think HN would downvote you for having an alternative datapoint. =) That said, you are right to a degree but the only multiple sim holding report I saw was Truecaller saying that 46% of its installs are people with dual sims. T
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"One rival executive reckons Jio is carrying more data than either China Mobile or AT&T, the world’s two most valuable operators." http://www.economist.com/news/business/21718495-jios-100m-ne...
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by erbdex 9y ago
erbdex at G's mail.
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by erbdex 9y ago
Whatsapp has no setting to disable the "online" flag when i have opened the app, and a bunch of things mentioned can be built on top of just this. I think this shows how some seemingly trivial data points on an individual level ca
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by erbdex 9y ago
India | Telecom | 110M subscribers on-boarded in 100 days To summarize: Jio, which is our cellular telephony play, now is the world's largest cellular data network (pumping 22,000 TB per day) and onboards a million customers a day! We
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How HTTP1.X and HTTP2 are different(twitter.com)
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Never say never: Her notes on brute force perseverance(medium.com)
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by erbdex 10y ago
Reverie Language Technologies | Bangalore, India | Full-Time $whois anything that has to digitally touch more than 200M lives in India has to go multilingual(how PayTM had to launch in 8 languages post demonetisation). We build the tech th
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by erbdex 10y ago
Mobile phones are getting more and more commoditised every coming year. The consumer sentiment too has gone from "I have an HTC" to "I am on Android". I am an iPhone user, but when i search Siri for "What day is the
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WW404 was hit by lightning on departure from Kefalvik(twitter.com)
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Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger(en.wikipedia.org)
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by erbdex 10y ago
> I probably spend at LEAST 75% of my smartphone time in the reddit client. The pitfalls for asking HN users. =) On a more serious note, could you elaborate on the LINE users around you- specifically in terms of what they use it for?
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by erbdex 10y ago
While thanking isn't the most appreciated response to comments on HN-- I can't thank you enough for taking the time out for such an elaborate and detailed reply.
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Ask China: How immersive is WeChat into your lifestyle?
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Language Models: The Beginnings(reverieinc.com)
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Desert Storm: F-16 dodging 6 Iraqi SAM launches on Jan 19 1991 [video](youtube.com)
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by erbdex 10y ago
> But generally speaking, most of the folks who speak these languages but don't speak Hindi also don't have much money and may not even have internet. About a 100M people in India know English out of a population of 1.3 Billion
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by erbdex 10y ago
> India: you have bigger problems than the efficient milking of the population - you need to feed the cow first. Absolutely disagree. Some data-points in this regard: - Rural FMCG share is already greater than Urban. - While rural mark
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by erbdex 10y ago
Great picks. But notice how these are specifically in the FMCG domain. ParleG- an 8 cent biscuit out of India is the world's highest selling biscuit. The article IMHO talks more of the mainstream digital Internet businesses which lar
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Right now, no. The project had raised about $60K earlier via an Indiegogo campaign but they ran out of it covering core engineering and manufacturing expenses. They would most probably be able to raise a round if they qualify the demo round
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Did that. Thanks! Had added his profile so that people on the fence about hosting him would have a face to see.
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His circumstances would not change. We'd have to relay him for a couple of months in a week, two week cycles. Asking for a month of hosting is too much energy barrier. This is slightly working out. Got contacted by someone who's r
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Ask HN: Engineer working with rLoop needs place to crash in Bay area
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Android: Google Awareness API(developers.google.com)
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Dynamically load a library at runtime from an Android app(stackoverflow.com)
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Bir Tawil: No man's land(en.wikipedia.org)
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